FireWall-1 FAQ: Log Viewer Not Displaying All Fields

Last Modified: 23 Dec 1999

Please note: This content was from when I was operating my FireWall-1
FAQ site, which I stopped operating in August 2005. For some reason people
still have links to this stuff on the Internet that people are still clicking
on.

I am making this information available again AS IS. Given how
old this information is, it is likely wildly inaccurate. I have no plans to
update this information.

If you're still running versions of Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 where
this information is still relevant to you, do yourself a favor and upgrade to
a more recent release. If you happen to be running a current release
and the information is useful, it's by happenstance :)

Q:

My log viewer is treating all log entries as if I logged "short," yet I have long logging turned on for all my rules.
or

'fw log' displays nothing

A:

This was a known problem in versions of FireWall-1. Check Point claims to have fixed this bug in every version of 3.0b. The problem exists on the management console and is not completely fixed until 4.0SP1.

Richard Pringle suggests you may be able to work around this problem by simply loading another log in the GUI. He keeps a rather "small" log for this purpose. He then switches back to the "current" log and sees all the fields.